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The Prize For the Development and Practical Demonstration of Kimmo Strong Artificial Intelligence

AI, KSAI

Once again, for a second year in a row, I am again doubling the prize money for developing and practically demonstrating a Kimmo Strong Artificial Intelligence. The prize money thus sits at a whopping 40 euros! That should get some balls rolling. I have yet to receive a single submission so my optimism is slowly dwindling. For those missing their clicking finger here is (once again!) the definition for Kimmo Strong Artificial Intelligence:

“When presented with (whatever means possible) Carl Barks’ whole production of Donald Duck comics, the AI can produce an (practically) infinite number of comics which, in no discernible way, differ in style or quality from any selected one of those by Carl Barks.”

The prize money goes to the first party to successfully present and demonstrate a KSAI. All conditions to attain the prize money are subject to change on a whim. I would also like to emphasize the “artificial” part of it. No shenanigans allowed. You know the drill.  Apply in the comments.

The Prize For the Development and Practical Demonstration of Kimmo Strong Artificial Intelligence

AI, KSAI

As usual, I am late for things. I would just like to announce that the prize money for developing and practically demonstrating a Kimmo Strong Artificial Intelligence has just been doubled!

Yes, you read it here first! The prize money is now a staggering, teeth-clenching *20* Euros! For those lazy or busy enough to click a link Kimmo Strong Artificial Intelligence is defined as:

“When presented with (whatever means possible) Carl Barks’ whole production of Donald Duck comics, the AI can produce an (practically) infinite number of comics which, in no discernible way, differ in style or quality from any selected one of those by Carl Barks.”

The prize money goes to the first party to succesfully present and demonstrate a KSAI. All conditions to attain the prize money are subject to change on a whim. No shenanigans allowed. Even unsuccessful entries are welcomed and perhaps laughed at. Apply in the comments.

The Prize For the Development of Kimmo Strong Artificial Intelligence

AI, KSAI

I am introducing a prize for the succesful development of a Kimmo Strong Artificial Intelligence. This prize will go to the individual or individuals or an organization, be it for-profit or not-for-profit, who produce an Artificial Intelligence that satisfy the requirements for an Kimmo Strong Artificial Intelligence:

“When presented with (whatever means possible) Carl Barks’ whole production of Donald Duck comics, the AI can produce an (practically) infinite number of comics which, in no discernible way, differ in style or quality from any selected one of those by Carl Barks.”

Choosing the recipient of the prize is left entirely at the discretion of me (Kimmo Savolainen). The prize money for winning is at the moment of posting 10€, subject to increase in the future.

A List of Artificial Intelligences in The Decreasing Order of Strength

AI, Concepts, KSAI

The principal divide of Artificial Intelligences (AI) among researches in the field is between weak AI and strong AI. I have discussed this in connection with KSAI (Kimmo Strong Artificial Intelligence)  so I won’t go into that here but I will try and formulate a way to categorize AI’s (real, imaginary or theoretical) into something of an order.  I will take the idea of Rule following as my starting point.

The most simple way of rule following is to be able to repeat something. I will try to illustrate my idea using counting as an example, this example isn’t probably the best possible but we have to start from somewhere. If you are presented with how to count “2+2″ then on the lowest level thats all you can do. In the next level you can add any numbers together.  Further on, you can, starting from addition, come up with multiplication, on your own. Even further on, you can come up with different kind of numbers (such as fractions) and other basic concepts. Basically this level would mean you can create the whole system of Mathematics, i.e. you could come up with any number that can be counted. On the next level you could surpass this and be able of what I believe is called hyper-computation. Here we enter into the area of absolutely-theoretical it is pretty much impossible that we could never experience hyper-computation in this universe (or any parallel ones). It is of course possible to propose an infinite number of levels of intelligence by declaring each level surpassing the previous one, but those lose their relevance for a pragmatist pretty fast.

I hope this example illustrates that the problem of creating an AI is not one of having computational power but rather one of programming. I’m assuming that you really can’t come up with anything not provided by your “programming” and I use the term here in the loosest possible meaning. You humans, for example, can’t imagine what hyper-computing would be like, outside of listing some general attributes it should have.

But for now, on to the list! “Product” isn’t really defined here, but since we are so deep in theoretical swamps, we can assume it to mean whatever collection of human mind-states.

0. An AI capable of hyper-computing.

  • NOTES: This and possible higher levels are beyond human understanding.

1. An AI capable of producing anything within any possible universe.

  • NOTES: An AI at this level can produce anything any kind of intelligence can.

n. An AI capable of producing anything within this universe.

  • NOTES: An AI at this level can produce anything any intelligence can in our universe.

m. An AI capable of producing everything any possible human can.

p. An AI capable of producing everything any existing human can.

q. An AI capable of producing what one particular human can.

  • NOTES: The AI’s (and I’s) above this level are all capable of producing an AI more stronger than themselves, i.e. I’m claiming here that humans can produce a strong AI.

r. An AI capable of producing a meaningful subset of what one particular human can.

  • KSAI along with its various levels.

——–Line between strong and weak AI

s. an AI capable of altering computation (i.e. programming)

t. An AI capable of computation.  (Practically every computer program written to date belong here)

END NOTES:

  1. *sigh* There are probably many, many levels between r and s, but as I said we have to start somewhere.
  2. Consider this as a work-in-very-much-process, I’ll add more AI’s to the list in time.
  3. Is this making any sense to all you bots and botsesses?

The Future of Computer Games

AI, Computer Games, Game design

NOTE: This article was supposed to appear in a Gaming related website (one more prominent than this) but due to certain re-arrangements concerning the operation behind the website, this plan has been (now finally) abandoned. Cheers and all the best to Nick.

We are peering in to a crystal ball to see what kind of developments we might see in gaming in the next 10-30 years. Usually when people make predictions they tend to exaggerate the short term development but underestimate the long term development. I take 10-30 to be short term so I’m taking the safe route proposing that things will stay mostly the same. We wont have the “holodeck” or “brain-computer -interfaces”. The computers we use will look mostly like the ones we use today. Perhaps they will be smaller, quieter but not light-based or quantum-anything. Programming of sort will still be required, Artificial Intelligence (AI) won’t be doing the job of game development for us, and cars will, for the most part, stay in the ground.
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Sufficient Requirement for a Strongest Possible AI

AI

To continue with my previous post, I have thought of the practical upper limit for the strength of an AI. Mind you, this is not a practical definition in all its meanings and its definetely not without its sortiment of other problems, but I like it and at least its recursive.

The strongest possible AI is a one that can build another AI stronger than itself. How do we figure when this is the case? We ask them! Its non of our concern to wonder about the inner lives of immensely complex systems. Of course its probable that the AI that built the stronger AI uses this very definition to determine whether its AI is stronger…

This definition is practical in the meaning that a stronger AI that can build an even stronger AI is really not that important for us. The realization of an AI is fundamentally a programming problem, once this is worked out, AI’s take care of the Singularity. Easy! Simple!

Kimmo Strong Artificial Intelligence Revisited

AI, KSAI

I proposed the concept of Kimmo Strong Artifical Intelligence (KSAI) awhile back. In AI research some make a distinction between strong and weak AI. Strong AI can be seen having the same qualities as human intelligence. Weak AI in contrast isn’t capable of true reasoning and problem resolving. To a keen observer it is clear that within this vague framework there are levels of distinction with KSAI offering an example of.

KSAI is in short:

“When presented with (whatever means possible) Carl Barks’ whole production of Donald Duck comics, the AI can produce an (practically) infinite number of comics which, in no discernible way, differ in style or quality from any selected one of those by Carl Barks.”

Of course, even this definition carries different levels of strength.

Probably the weakest KSAI would be one that wouldn’t produce any original graphics of it’s own but would simply recycle those by CB. CB’s style varied and evolved during his career. A slightly stonger KSAI would be able to produce it’s own graphics, the style of which would probably be a mix of CB’s overall style (being able to emulate the “overall style” is of course what makes this AI a “strong” one) or produce the style CB had at the end of his career.

A stronger KSAI would be able to emulate CB’s style from any level of his career. Slightly stronger KSAI would be able to insert a character into a style that existed before it’s first apperiance.

Even further still one can imagine a stronger KSAI that would be able to produce comics with original (main or supporting) characters.

Yet stronger KSAI would be able to produce comics that wouldn’t in any way be Donald Duck comics but would be clearly in CB’s style.

Even within this quite limited application of Ai we can see clear distinctions. All of these levels assume the input of the KSAI would be identical and wouldn’t be limited just to the exact of content of CB’s comics.